Back before the Civil War

[Phoenix]

Sorry, but I just need to celebrate this.

I've known for years that Alice Wansborough married William Rowden in1683, and that she was a spinster aged 30:


https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcr...2F98052318%2F3


She is daughter of Thomas, proved by his will:



https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...true&pId=85076


Thomas was the son of William:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...38&pId=1261432


and William was born in 1574, son of John. I know this because he was known as William the elder and his kinsman William married Joan Hooper and was the son of yet another William (deceased):
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...&pId=902831581